As the year comes to a close, now is the time to reflect on the lessons we learned.

And the weird words we heard uttered—or saw typed—that we never knew existed, or hadn’t until now. You can hear them echoing through the annals of scholarly blog posts of yore... Puppytooth... Normcore... Alphet... Luckily, we’ve written them all down in one place and defined them for you once and for all.